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Nearby Theaters

I ran across this while perusing Something Weird Video’s “60’s Go-Go Chicks Vol. 5”. There was a short clip of South Main Street in L.A. and this was the only theatre I could identify.

Operating in 1906 as La Petite # 5. There is a possiblity that this was also operating as the 350-seat Rounder Theatre in around 1911. The Rounder Theatre was located at S. Main Street and 5th Street and was operated by the Arthur S. Hyman circuit in 1911. In December 1915 plans were put forward to open the theatre as the Sherman Theatre.

By 1956 it had been renamed Galway Theatre, and it was operating as an adult movie theatre in the 1980’s

I remember the Galway; never was inside though. I worked for Walnut Properties/Pussycat Theatres for a long time and serviced the projection equipment at the Optic several times. It seems to me that it was across the street and a few doors away but I can’t remember in which direction. That was back in the ‘70s through the '80s and those memories are getting dim (a stroke didn’t help much either). I always found that old part of town really interesting. A lot more history down there than folks realize.

In the 1959 Universal-International release “Too Soon To Love” we get Jennifer West and Richard Evans on Main Street. They’re looking for an abortionist. Note the bottoms of the illuminated “Galway” letters above the “open all night” banner.